The prayers at the Chaath festival are full of concentration and spiritual presence. Visit rivers in the Terai in October/November and you might get to feel the ambience.
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Burning dolls for brother’s protection: Sama Chakeva
The brother-sister festival at Tihar is only one of several others. In Maithili communities across the Terai, love between brothers and sisters is also celebrated at Sama Chakeva in commemoration of heroic acts of two mythic sieblings. Sama, a young…
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“Shaman Night”: women shamans in action (video)
This video is from a remote village East of Janakpur – at night on the last full moon of November – capturing moments of ancient Shaman rituals. Most of them women, the local Shamans are performing rituals celebrating the slaying…
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Farm and ForestKeep spraying or go organic?Video Library
The hybrid “catch” – farmers speak out, video
What’s best for Nepal’s farmers: hybrid seeds – by and large imported from abroad – or original, local varieties? Well, opinions differ. But voices critical of hybrid seeds are growing. Hybrid corn, rice and other crops have been grown in…
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Farm and ForestKeep spraying or go organic?Video Library
No mask, no gloves: Spraying “Badal 76 – Dichlorvos”
“What are you spraying?” We just had a chat with Thulimaya Tamang about farming and now she was getting her pesticide kit ready. Time to dust the vegetables, she explained, or pest might get the better of them. She showed…
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